SumTotal Systems, the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, today announced that it has expanded its senior management team with the addition of Harnish Kanani, new senior vice president, professional services and training, and Mark Cuny, new corporate controller.
Kanani brings a wealth of experience to SumTotal’s professional services team, including more than 20 years of driving technology development and deployment for global customers as a consultant with CapGemini Ernst and Young and TATA Consulting. Just prior to assuming his new role at SumTotal, Kanani was COO for Emagia, a financial enterprise software provider, where he led the global services, sales and support teams, in addition to managing internal operations.
At SumTotal, Kanani will have responsibility for driving the development of processes and strategies focused on successful system deployment and customer satisfaction. He also will lead SumTotal’s customer training organization, overseeing the enhancement of the company’s training offering based on customer feedback and marketplace demands.
“SumTotal has come through an extremely successful merger and integration and I’m delighted to be joining the company as it enters its next phase of growth as a global provider,” said Kanani. “As the number of customers implementing our state-of-the-art platform continues to expand, I look forward to developing the highly scalable teams and flexible service models required to meet customer need and to fuel our growth.”
As SumTotal’s corporate controller, Cuny will be responsible for all accounting functions and infrastructure and the maintenance of the company’s financial control environment. Cuny joins SumTotal after spending a decade at Siebel Systems, where he was most recently group director of accounting. While at Siebel, Cuny helped establish the company’s financial infrastructure, as well as overseeing all financial functions of the company’s 15 subsidiaries in Asia Pacific, Latin America and Canada. Cuny also had extensive experience helping Siebel document procedures, risks and controls to support its compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Prior to Siebel, Cuny helped drive the financial affairs of a wide variety of companies, including Weyerhaeuser, Datagate Inc. and Forensic Analytical.
“SumTotal has an outstanding reputation as a technology innovator that has helped define the industry. We are experiencing significant growth and success despite a challenging software marketplace and we continue to capture marketshare,” said Cuny. “By further improving financial processes and infrastructure, I look forward to helping guide the company’s future expansion around the globe.
“The depth and experience of our management team are key reasons why SumTotal leads in our industry,” said R. Andrew Eckert, SumTotal CEO. “SumTotal stands to benefit considerably from Harnish’s and Mark’s industry expertise and successful track records producing healthy companies and happy customers. Their addition to our leadership organization will help us ensure that our products and services effectively meet the needs of our global enterprise customers and that we remain a strong, stable partner for these organizations over the long-term.”
